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Finally, this tiny seed is highly utilitarian. Add a tablespoon to your morning blend; sprinkle them on your breakfast cereal; create puddings; and add them to your salads or rice and vegetable dishes for an extra superfood kick.
“Is there any more feudal, soul eradiating experience than standing before the little window on a microwave oven watching the carousel slowly revolve your frozen block of dinner? Time spent this way might be easier than cooking but it is not enjoyable & surely not ennobling. It is to feel spiritually unemployed, useless to self & humanity.”
― Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
― Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
“Alexis de Tocqueville took one good hard look at America’s growing colonies and noted: “America is the one country in the world where the most continual care has been taken to trace clearly separated lines of action for the two sexes, and where the wish is for them to walk with equal steps, but always on different paths.”
― What French Women Know What French Women Know Of Love, Sex and Other Matters of the Heart and Mind
― What French Women Know What French Women Know Of Love, Sex and Other Matters of the Heart and Mind
“Obesity rates are inversely correlated with the amount of time in food preparation. The more time a nation devotes to food preparation at home, the lower it's rate of obesity.”
― Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
― Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
“The dream of control is seductive but it leads to monoculture in the field and fortified white bread in the supermarket.”
― Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
― Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
“author Véronique Vienne recalled how she had to work hard to adapt to the mandated cheerfulness of American culture when she moved from France to the States; she practiced her smile in the mirror, trying her best to look like “Miss Congenial ity,” before concluding that “in this country, the obligation we feel to conform to exalted standards of happiness can be pure misery.”
― What French Women Know What French Women Know Of Love, Sex and Other Matters of the Heart and Mind
― What French Women Know What French Women Know Of Love, Sex and Other Matters of the Heart and Mind
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